Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1925, Page 4

FRATERNITY NAKES PEACE WITH BALLOU Lambda Sigma Bows to High School Rule—Phi Alpha Plans to Follow. Lambda Sigme of Cenual High School probably will be the first high school fraternity recognized by the Board of Education. The organization, it was learned definitaly today, has #greed to eliminate all of its charac- teristics described as objectionable by =chool authorities, and the board is expected to approve it as a high school crganization at its meeting tomorrow afternoon in the ranklin School. Dr. Frank W. Ballou. superintend- ent of schools, has held a serfes of conferences with representatives of T.ambda Sigma, at which the demands of the board are said to have been accepted. The result of these meet ings will be reported to the board by the guperintendent, and. in keeping with its promise, the board undoubted Iy will place the fraternity on the approved list of school organizations Abandons Secrecy The fraternity w pay’ hoard’s approval with the loss of its sacrecy. A faculty member of Cen- tral will sit in at all meetings, and nlay a prominent part in directing the destinies of the organization. School authorities will have a copy of the fraternity’s constitution and by a8 weli as a list of its member: Tambda Sigma also will be require to @ive up any “black ballot system it may have used in selecting its members. School authorities, too, will have something to say regarding 1embers of the organization, and indi- cate that they will insist on the ma jority rule in balloting on new mem- hers as well as other questions. With Lambda Sigma about to be recognized by the board, another fra- ternity, Phi Alpha, at Eastern Hizh School, it is understood, has made overtures to school authorities with a view to getting on the approved Ust. The case of this fraternity, how- aver, has not reached a stage for board action, it was said. Sigma Delta to Fight. Meantime Sigma Delta remains firm in its determination to file an other suit in the District Supreme Court to test the legality of the board’s anti-fraternity rule. John E. Laskey, former United States district attorney for the District. counsel for the fraternity, will lead Sigma Delta’s legal battle. Sigma Delta, led ey, which filed the first the board’'s rule last Bpring and lost on a technicality. KILLED WHEN MACHINE IS HIT BY ELECTRIC CAR Spectal Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, October 6.—Emil Tescham, 206 Channing street north- east, Washington, was almost instant- Iy killed when his auto was struck by a Washington-Virginia Electric Co. car at the Del Ray crossing, near here, shortly before noon today. The automobile was carried 175 feet along the tracks and demolished. Tescham was picked up by Officer H. L. Driscoll of Potomac and taken to Alexandria Hospital in the car of a passing motorist. He died on the way. He was employed by 8. Mitchell, jeweler, 711 Ninth street, Washington. The electric car was passing the crossing, Robert Ackers, the motor- man, said, when the auto shot to- ward the tracks. Before he could apply his brakes he crashed into the machine. AGRICULTURE UNITS USE 45 BUILDINGS SPREAD OVER CITY (Continued from First Page.) for the efficiently and with greater dispatch with its units in one location.” Here {s how the various activities and personnel of the department are scattered among 45 buildings: Government-owned buildings — Ad- ministration, the Mall, between "Twelfth and Fourteenth, 40,529 square feet; others in this same location are the east wing, 78,015 square feet; west wing, 78,015 square feet; information, 1,201 square feet; entomology, 17,999 square feet; entomology annex, 2,093 square feet; greenhous 6 square feet; mechanical shops, 82,058 square feet; power plant, 8,400 square feet; plant inspection, 3,066 square feet, Weather Bureau, Twenty-fourth and M streets northwest, 47,776 square feet; 1418 Pennsylvanian avenue northwest, 4,240 square feet; 1 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, 8,212 square feet: 1418 E street northwest, 10,300 square feet (garage); Graham Building, Fourteenth and B streets northwest, 8,500 square feet: Temporary Building F, Sixth and B streets northwest, 115,884 square feet; Temporary Building C, Seventh and B streets southwest, 37,767 square feet; Government Hotels, N-O Bullding, 29,760 square feet. Buildings Now Rented. Rented buildings—1358 B street southwest, $35,360 rental, 89,943 square feet; 220 Fourteenth street southwest, $24,000 rental, 55,765 square feet; At- lantic Building, 930 F street north- west, $35,000 rental, 52,651 square feet; Chemistry Building, 216 Thir- teenth street northwest, $16,000 rental, 79,068 square feet; 212 and 214 Thir- teenth street southwest, $960 rental, 9,127 square feet; Willard Building, 8 and 515 Fourteenth street north- est, $12,000 rental, 36,909 square feet; Globe Building, 339 Pennsylvania venue northwest, $4.800 rental, 39,- 9 square feet: 215 Thirts southwest, $4,000 rental, 56 square feet; 1316 B street southwest, rental, 10,788 square feet; 220 Thir- teenth street southwest, $4,000 rental, 10,060 square feet; 200-202 Fourteenth street southwest, 0 rental, 14, WILKINS OREAKFAST A Home Product Roasted, Packed and Sold Right Here in Town Showing unsafe underpining of Temporary Building D, one of the 43 struc- tures in which the Department of Agriculture is housed. square feet; 1350 B street southwest, $1.980 rental, 7,350 square feet; 1304- 1308 B street southwest, $3,000 rental, 13,010 square feet; 221 Linworth place southwest, $5,400 rental, 21,600 square feet; 220 Linworth place southwest, $4,800 rental, 16,391 square feet; 1369 C street southwest, $600 rental, 2,284 square feet; 1363 C street southwest, $9.000 rental, 10,000 square feet; Ohio Building, American University, $10,000 rental, 52,685 square feet; rear Twelfth street southwest, $1,080 rental, 3,959 square feet: 920 F street hwest (basement), ~$420 rental, 0 square feet. Then there are a number of storage bulldings for which rent is pald as follows: 929 Seventh street southwest, $600; First and M streets northeast, $1,700; 2513 M street northwest. $500; 1215 C street north- 217 Twelfth street Effect on Efficlency. ‘The loss of time and personal touch Involved in thus having entire bu- reaus of the department, or large units of individual bureaus, so far removed from their respective headquarters that necessary official intercourse is hampered and delayed, are handicaps on efficient administration that cannot be measured in terms of money, vet do unquesyonably affect efiiciency of administratfon very fnjurfously. The condition tends also to create a feeling of separateness, even of isola- tion, on the part of the remoter units, that is harmful. Interbureau and in- trabureau conferences, co-ordination and co-operation, are hampered and restricted by separation. When, for example, & conference between the Secretary of Agriculture and the for- ester {s necessary. the latter must be called from 930 F street, a_half-mile or more away from the Administra- tion Bullding. When the chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics wishes to confer with a leader of work in Temporary Building C he must wait until the man sent for can travel the distance, approximately seven _city squares from Building C to 1358 B street. Intercommunication by mes- senger and truck is inevitably en- larged by such dislocation of depart- ments and bureau units, and In some cases clerical forces are unavoidably duplicated. In addition, the difficul- ties of proper supervision are greatly enhanced, the expenses of operation and malntenance are increased and the loss of time involved in the trans- mission of official papers, supplies and personnel, while it cannot be definitely expressed in figures, is undoubtedly enormous. Scattered Over City. A chart has been drawn which at first glance might be thought to have been designed as a map of the city of ‘Washington, but which in reality is intended to show the position of the varlous buildings occupied by the De- partment of Agriculture relatively to the Administration Bullding, in which is the office of the Secretary of Agri- culture. On this chart are shown ap- proximate air-line distances from the office of the Secretary to these other bulldings—the maximum distance be- ing about seven miles. This is from the small storage building located at Seventh and K streets southwest to the Fixed Nitrogen Research Lab- oratory at the American University Park. Much more important and sig- nificant than the remote location of a storage bullding, however, is the fact that important bureaus, such as the Forest Service, the Bureau of Public Roads, the Bureau of Home Economics and the Fixed Nitrogen Re- search Laboratory are at great dis- tances from the office of the Secre- tary. Bureau Branches Scattered. Equally disadvantageous, in the light of proper and efficient adminis- tratio; the fact that branches of several of the larger bureaus are scattered in many bulldings in dif- ferent parts of the city. The plcture of the housing conditions in the De- partment of Agriculture shown on this chart discloses a situation abso- lutely indefensible from the point of view of efficient business administra- tion. Referring back to the statement that the valuable records of the de- partment are exposed to extreme fire hazard fn many buildings, it may be fairly stated that of all the bufldings used In whole or {n part by the De partment (35 in all) only the follow- ing can be considered as of modern. so-called fireproof construction, owned by the Government: The east wing and the west wing, rented, street southwest, occupied by Agri cultural Economics: 220 Fourteenth street southwest, extension service, Bureau of Plant Industry: 218 Thir: teenth street southwest, Bureau of Chemistry; Williard Building, Bureau of Public Roads; 220 Linworth place southwest, Publications: 221 Linworth place southwest, principally cotion work; 1350 B street southwest, Ani mal Industry. Only 9 out of 45 huild ings are of modern, fireproof construc tion. Some “Slow Burning.” Of all the 36 others, the best that can be sald is that their brick and timber construction may class some of them as “slow burning,” while even this much cannot be said of such as Temporary Buildings F and C, the inflamable character of which has been touched on in previous articles in this series and needs no elabor: tion. If the sprinkler systems in- stalled in Bulldings F and C operate promptly in case of fire the buildings may not become a total loss, but the amount of damage to "Government property which probably would re- sult from ‘the water poured out can hardly be estimated. The best that can be sald for the retention and “outlawed” use of these buildings is that, at the risk of human life and great property loss, the Government has saved some money. The three principal safeguards em: ployed—sprinkler system, constant patrolling of the bulldings and fire drills of emploves—are well designed to prevent loss of life; but in case of an extensive fire nothing can prevent damage to property by fire or water or both. * Rapld Growth of Work. Referring to the statement earlier in this article that no building has been undertaken by the Government for the Department of Agriculture for nearly 18 years, it must be empha- sized that the rapid growth of the department during that peirod has made necessary not only the occupa- tion of additional bufldings, but of constant crowding in practically all bufldings. Many units are in need of addi- tional space to relieve these over- crowded conditions, which mnot only reduce the efficiency of operation but involve risk to the health of em- ployes. Overcrowding is especially serious in the following: Agricul- tural Economics, Bleber Building and others; Plant Industry, west wing (entire); Divislon of Account (east wing), Department Library, 1358 B street southwest; Bureau of Entomol- ogy, Entomology Bullding; Insecticide and Fungiclde Board, 220 Thirteenth street southwest. In buildings where overcrowding 1s not so serious, it can be accurately said that there is no room for growth. Overcrowding has forced the use of far too much basement space for housing employes under conditions of poor light and imperfect ventilation which should not be imposed upon Like a New Car —that’s how the old family S-W House and Roof Paints. Valdura Asphalt Paint for Roofs. Floor St Wax_ al Varnishes. ins, d low Enamels, Gold and ilver Paint for Radiators. Window and Plate Glass “bus” will appear after you've given it a Fall furbishing-up with MURPHY DA-COTE ENAMEL 1 No trouble to apply, if you fol- directions with care—DA- COTE DRIES OVERNIGHT. 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This condition ~ exists especially in the buildings occupied by the Bureau of Entomology and the Office of Publi- cations, and is probably worst of all on the top floors of the temporary war bulldings. Intensive Study Made. For more than three years an in- tensive study has been made by a committee of experts in the depart- ment, as well as by the Public Bufldings Commission and the Office of the Supervising Architect, in the Treasury Department, so that the most ‘practical recommendations may be made to Congress for proper and adequate housing of the depart- ment in the interests of economy, efficiency, fire prevention and wel- fare of employes. The successive Secretaries of Agri- culture, in their annual reports, have pointedly called attention to the de- partment’s necessities for new house- ing. In his annual report for 1922 the late Sccretary Wallace, after recit- ing the difficulties of administration, said: “It is impossible to overem- 1358 B | Kha.lzs the need for a centralized ousing of the department’s activi- ties”’ In his annual report for 1923 Secretary Wallace again called at- tention to the unsatisfactory hous- ing of the department and urgently recommended that provision be made to this end, adding the significant comment: Becoming More Acute. “With the development of the de- partment’s work, its housing situation is becoming more and more acute, and it will be impossible to hold out- standing research workers or do eff- clent work in many lines until such intolerable conditions have been rec- @ Senator Smoot spoke with certain knowledge when he sald in his report to the President and to Congress that “the Department of Agrioulture is the ‘worst housed institution in the city of Washington.” ‘We have seen how this great branch of the Government establishment has been forced to endure housing condi- tions that are unbusiness like, seri- ously detrimental to good administra- tion and which involve fire hazards of an extremely serious nature. What's to be done about it? Needs of Department. Obviously what the Department of Agriculture moat u:‘cnumnm is an unusually large office lding, not monumental-like in structure with fancy ocolumns and mausoleum-style windows, but with abundant light and ventilation and real work offices and laboratories. The purpose should be to bring all the wide-flung activities of the department into group of build ings near together and accessible for | conferences. | Varlous proposals have been made | for meeting these needs. About three years ago Secretary Wallace ap-| pointed a committee of department officlals who made recontinendations which had the support of the Public Bulldings Commission and were in- cluded in the public bulldings bill urged at the last session of Congress These recommendations were: (1) Con- | struction of a central portion connect ing the two existing white marble buildings. a« originally designed; and (2) construction on of the squares south of I} xireat & modern tireproof | office-type building. which would cover an entire block and with four stories and basement would provide about 500,000 square feet of floor space. While the public buildings bill was | under conslderation in the closing | days of the last (ongress the super- | vising architect of the Treasury De- | partment, in a tentative bullding pro- | gram, Included three schemes for the | Department of Agriculture: (1)¢ pletion of the center pavilion with & dome and a quadrungle, h would require the purchase of blocks to the south and v street some 200 feet construction of the « ognized and steps taken to remedy |lon uniting the two marble wings. them."” Thorough inveatigation of the con- A la carte service throughout the evening What You Should Know Consult any of the Officers in our Trust Department with two additional the dome. and cert: torles inst extension Announces the Reopening of The Garden For dinner and supper Tomerrow Evening Daily Thereafter—Except Sunday Dinner, with dancing, 6:30 to 9 o’clock Supger Dances, 10 until clasing Music by Majyfilower Orchestra . Spencer Tupman, Director Washington’s Palatial Beginning Thursday, October the Fifteenth ‘he Popular Afternoon Tea Dances Will Be Resumed From 4:30 to 6:15 Madame Mishtowt, Hostess It is a written which you can set cate, while you live your estate in a manner that will provide forthwith vourself, for a relative or any other beneficiary. about your particular case. AND T AMEMMN SECURIT ZAND TRUST COMPANY © Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits A Central—7th and Mass. Ave. N.W. Northeast—8th and ST COMDP. 15th and Penna. Ave. Owver $6,500,000 BRANCHES H Streets N.E. sauth side of B street and the erec- tion thereon of & seven-story commer- | an then erecting & ings elsewhere in the outskirts of the city to avoid traffic congestion. More recent studies, with & view to adequately housing the department ®o0 that it can function efficiently and provide for certain expansion, show the desirability of (1) completing the central pavilion in proper style to harmonize with the existing wings, as originally planned, to house all ad- ministrative branches; (2) abandoning all space now occupied in temporary war buildings: (3) abandoning all rented buildings, and (4) erection of a large modern building on the south side of B street northwest, on land already owned by the Government and now part of the department grounds, which will be rectangular, with seven interfor wings connecting the north and south fronts, six stories high, with a basement. This would house all other activi- fes of the department, now widely scattered, with the possible exception of the Weather Bureau. This bureau now occupies Government-owned property and there is a distinct ad- vantage In maintaining continuity of observations begun many years ago in this location. Further considera- tion will be given to this particular matter of the Weather Bureau. All of these schemes will be seri ously considered before the new De- partment of Agriculture buflding ie started. and conslderation must be ! given to providing quarters that will not be cramped and that the bulld- ing operations disturb as little as pos- sible the work of the departm MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S. Treasury 1408 H ST. N. W. ey agreement by apart and dedi- , any portion of an income for group of bun}:b' i Southwest—7th and E Streets S.W. Northwest—1140 15th Street N.W. 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